Care and Radical Revision: A Poetry Workshop
Revision asks something rare of us: to return to our own words with honesty, curiosity, and an open mind. It is a practice in both craft and devotion—an act of tending to a poem until it
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The Writer in Public: Crafting Your Artistic Identity
How do you promote yourself as an artist without losing yourself in the process? Forget hustle culture’s algorithmic approach to personal branding. This class is all about what it means to make your public persona a creative
Night Poetry
Night changes everything. The familiar becomes strange, and the strange becomes intimate. Some things only reveal themselves after dark—fears, desires, memories—and the mind loosens its grip on the stories it tells
Roadmap to a First Draft: Find Your Novel’s Plot
Starting a novel is thrilling. Finishing a draft? Something else entirely. Somewhere between chapter three and “how did I get here,” the path blurs and the story’s direction starts to slip away. This class
Speculative Fiction Workshop Intensive
Speculative fiction is where big ideas meet big ambition: new worlds, strange magic, future histories, haunted houses, portals, planets, systems, shadows. Ideas are easy; sustaining a project of this scale is the real challenge. This sixteen-week intensive is
How to Create an Unforgettable Character
This class will be recorded. Registered students will have access to the recording for a set period after the class. Students will not be able to purchase the recording after
Publishing Fundamentals II: Book Proposals, Query Letters, and Pitches
You’ve finished—or are close to finishing—your book.  Now that your manuscript exists, you're primed for the next challenge: helping others understand what you’ve created. Pitching, querying, and proposing a book are the art of distilling the entire universe of your work—and why it matters—into one
Prose Style: The Art of the Sentence, the Art of the Paragraph
This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill. First-rate writers use all the sentence forms, and they use particular forms not at random but to intensify meaning
Advanced Poetry Workshop
“Nothing has nothing to do with this.” —Solmaz Sharif Advanced workshops mean different things to different poets. In this course, “advanced” simply means you know your way around a poem, have
Introduction to Publishing Short Work
You’ve written something you’re proud of—maybe a short story, a flash piece, a poem—but what happens after “The End”? How do you move from finished draft to sharing your work with real readers? For many writers, that next step can be confusing and daunting.Â
